MIDNIGHT SWIM

2025

MIDNIGHT SWIM is a journey inward.

The deeper you go, the clearer it becomes. Hidden emotions, forgotten memories, fears, desires, and fragments of identity begin to surface from the subconscious. This series is a meeting with your shadow, your power, and the parts of yourself that usually remain unseen.

Welcome to the deep.

Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, Taia Akulova’s solo exhibition at Exhibit A Gallery in Los Angeles, May 2025, curated by Angela Afifi / Camp Fluff.
Vibrant abstract oil painting with sweeping red, blue, white, and green impasto brushstrokes.
Vibrant abstract expressionist painting with thick yellow, pink, red, blue, and purple brushstrokes on a white background
Vibrant abstract expressionist painting with layered multicolored brushstrokes in blue, red, pink, yellow, green, and purple.
Vibrant abstract oil painting with bold orange, white, green, red, and blue palette and expressive textured brushstrokes.
Abstract expressionist painting with vivid layered strokes of magenta, blue, crimson, green, white, and black.
Abstract expressionist painting with layered pink, red, blue, white, and purple brushstrokes and bold geometric forms.
Abstract expressionist painting with vivid vertical strokes in purple, blue, green, red, and yellow against a dark background.
Abstract pastel painting of a soft blue, gray, and peach floral arrangement with textured brushstrokes.
Vibrant abstract painting with layered yellow, pink, red, orange, blue, and purple brushstrokes on a white background
Vibrant abstract acrylic painting with layered blue, purple, red, pink, yellow, and green brushstrokes
Vibrant abstract oil painting with bold blue, red, pink, white, green, and yellow brushstrokes.
Abstract expressionist painting with bold orange, white, green, red, and deep blue palette and heavily textured brushstrokes.
Large abstract expressionist painting with thick, textured brushstrokes in vivid pink, blue, red, green, white, black, and orange.
Vibrant abstract painting of a fragmented face with bold blue, pink, red, white, and purple brushstrokes.
Abstract expressionist painting with vivid vertical strokes in blue, purple, green, red, and yellow against a dark background
Abstract pastel painting of a blue-gray horse emerging through soft white, peach, and green brushstrokes.

MIDNIGHT SWIM

Solo Exhibition

Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Curated by Angela Afifi / Camp Fluff

May 2025

Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Contemporary artist Taia Akulova posing with her original oil paintings at her solo exhibition MIDNIGHT SWIM, Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Contemporary artist Taia Akulova posing with her original oil paintings at her solo exhibition MIDNIGHT SWIM, Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Contemporary artist Taia Akulova posing with her original oil paintings at her solo exhibition MIDNIGHT SWIM, Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors view colorful abstract paintings at an art gallery exhibition, with an artist or gallery host standing beside the artwork.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Artist Taia Akulova with exhibition curator Angela Afifi at MIDNIGHT SWIM, Akulova’s solo exhibition at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Contemporary artist Taia Akulova posing with her original oil paintings at her solo exhibition MIDNIGHT SWIM, Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Artist Taia Akulova with exhibition curator Angela Afifi at MIDNIGHT SWIM, Akulova’s solo exhibition at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.
Visitors at MIDNIGHT SWIM, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Taia Akulova at Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, May 2025.